Updated with a new postscript by Amy Chua & a letter from her eldest daughter Sophia Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is a story about a mother two daughters & two dogs It was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones But instead it's about a bitter clash of cultures a fleeting taste of glory & how you can be humbled by a thirteen-year-old Witty entertaining & provocative this is a unique & important book that will transform your perspective of parenting forever ...

It&s 1944 & the first gathering of super-powered heroes may well be the last What happens when the government assembles a new breed of super-powered beings at the height of war? Who lives? Who dies? & what exactly does the government have planned for the "heroes?" Battle Hymn Farewell to the First Golden Age answers these questions with this beautiful collection of the sold-out acclaimed miniseries ...

In the 1930s a very unusual tale appeared in the influential Amazing Stories magazine Unlike the usual yarns of robots & interstellar travel this in the Dawn" featured the brutal exploits of Hok the first hero of humanity in his struggles against the savage Neanderthals Written by rising pulpster Manly Wade Wellman (Who Fears the Devil?) who would later achieve fame for his American folktales of Silver John & beat out William Faulkner for a prestigious writing award the story & its brave hero struck a chord with Amazing readers & several additional adventures followed taking Hok through the prehistory of mankind to battle unrelenting cavemen explore the lost city of Atlantis discover new technology & chart a new destiny for humanity Now for the first time ever Planet Stories presents a complete authorized collection of all of Wellman rare Hok the Mighty tales packed with unfinished story fragments all-new illustrations & a br&-new introduction by Wellman longtime friend fantasy author David Drake ...

Two opponents face off across a &battle line& & attempt to win the battle by taking 5 of 9 flags or 3 adjacent flags Flags are decided by placing cards into 3 card poker-type hands on either side of the flag (similar to straight flush 3 of a kind straight flush etc) The side with the highest &formation& of cards wins the flag This is a rethemed version of Schotten-Totten with different graphics & wooden flag bits in place of the boundary stone cards Game play is identical except the cards run from 1 to 10 (not 9) you hold seven cards in your hand (not 6) & the rule that stones may only be claimed at the start of your turn is presented as an "advanced variant" Also the tactics cards were introduced by Battle Line; these cards were only added to later editions of Schotten-Totten Some have reported that the production quality of the cards is inferior to the Schotten-Totten cards however for most readers Battle Line will be much easier to find in stores In the second edition of GMT&s Battle Line the card quality is higher ...

Now in it's 8th GMT Printing designer Reiner Knizia's Battle Line is GMT's 2 All-time best-selling game! This new re-themed version of Battle Line is a two-player strategy card game built around the theme of Medieval warfare This re-themed version of Battle Line features 60 beautiful new cards by illustrator Roland Mac Donald as well as 10 full-color tactics wildcards that give players extra flexibility & choices & help make each new battle wildly different from the last Battle Line takes about 30 minutes to play To win you must create powerful formations along your side of the line of battle that are superior to those of your enemy Victory goes to the player who wins 5 of the 9 battle flags (an envelopment) or three adjacent flags (a breakthrough) Based on Reiner Knizia's original design published in Germany as Shotten-Totten Battle Line enhances & expands that game system to give players even more tactical options & gut-wrenching decisions ...

Please note this is a region B blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Battle Los Angeles is a war movie first science fiction second It&s got it all a burned-out retiring sergeant who gets drawn back in because dammit the Marines need him; the guy who&s about to get married; the guy who&s still a virgin; the guy suffering from shell shock & who just might crack; the newbie officer with a lot of book learning who you just know is going to freeze under pressure & have to be shepherded by that burned-out sergeant who learned his lessons on the battlefield… & so much more There&s not a moment in this movie you haven&t seen before--the only twist is that the enemy is alien so whatever shred of concern you might have for raining heavy artillery on a fellow human being can be cheerfully cast aside But cliches are cliches because they are efficient & effective & despite the profound familiarity of Battle Los Angeles there&s no denying the movie rips along (though two-thirds of the way through you may have forgotten who was the virgin & who was the shell-shocked guy--but really does it matter?) The look owes a debt to District 9 a h&-held verite grittiness with most of the CGI carefully given a dingy dirty look so that it meshes with the urban landscape Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) does an impressive job of spitting out ham-fisted dialogue like he really really means it while the rest of the cast is suitably generic This is an unrepentant love letter to the military; many viewers faced with the unsettling chaos & moral ambiguities of real wars will find this mythologizing not only soothing but even moving --Bret Fetzer Special Features Behind the Battle Aliens in LA Preparing for Battle Creating LA ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Witness the end of civilization unfold as hostile alien invaders attack the planet As people everywhere watch the world&s great cities fall Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected Now it&s up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) & his platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they&ve ever encountered in this epic sci-fi action film ...

It's 1939 & Harry Woods is a Spitfire pilot in the RAF When his friend Lenny loses his leg in a dogfight with the Luftwaffe Harry is determined to fight on That is until his plane is hit & he finds himself tumbling through the air high above the English Channel ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This is a spectacular retelling of a true story that shows courage at its inspiring best Few defining moments can change the outcome of war But when the outnumbered Royal Air Force defied unsurmountable odds in engaging the German Luftwaffe they may well have altered the course of history! Features Ron Goodwin&s theatrical score or Sir William Walton&s original (unused) score restored & remixed in 51 surround! Actors Michael Caine Trevor Howard Harry Andrews Curd Jurgens Ian Mc Shane Directors Guy Hamilton Writers Derek Dempster Derek Wood James Kennaway Wilfred Greatorex Producers Benjamin Fisz Harry Saltzman John Palmer Language English French German Polish Subtitles English Number of discs 2 ...

In August 1940 the Luftwaffe began an operation to destroy or neutralize RAF Fighter Command & enable Hitler to invade Britain that autumn It was a new type of air warfare the first ever offensive counter-air campaign against an integrated air defence system Powerful combat-proven & previously all-conquering the German air force had the means to win the Battle of Britain Yet it did not This book is an original rigorous campaign study of the Luftwaffe's Operation Adlerangriff researched in Germany's World War II archives & using the most accurate data available Doug Dildy explains the capabilities of both sides sets the campaign in context & argues persuasively that it was the Luftwaffe's own mistakes & failures that led to its defeat & kept alive the Allies' chance to ultimately defeat Nazi Germany ...